Professor Marston and the Wonder Women is very not wonderful

Riding the wave of Wonder Woman success, Professor Marston and the Wonder Women tried to bring the story of the comic’s creator to life.

Professor Marston and the Wonder Women sold itself as the true story about the creator of Wonder Woman. But according to an interview with Christie Marston, the movie is a complete lie.

That’s very interesting given that the marketing for the movie is about how it is the true story of the man behind the woman. Now here’s the thing about the movie: It has dialogue in it that made me so angry that I legitimately rolled my eyes in the theater.

They sold Marston, the man who created Wonder Woman, as a radical feminist of his time. He probably was, but the way this movie sells him isn’t exactly great. I wouldn’t want to talk to this man, because he’d probably sit there and analyze everything about you and then say you think he’s strange.

If they sold this as a fictionalized love story of the creator of Wonder Woman, it’d probably have made a better movie and be a truer depiction. As Christie points out, this is not what her family was like or how Wonder Woman‘s origin was.

Honestly, the best part of the movie is when Luke Evans is completely nude save for a taxi cab hat, which most definitely was done for the shock value of the movie and probably not real. If they’re selling it as a biopic, maybe they should have made it more accurate. But according to Christie, Angela Robinson, the director and writer of the film, never contacted the family because she wanted her own vision shared.

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Look, that’s fine. But maybe then don’t say this is a true story.